Author: Meteor Blades

Fame AND Fortune in 2005 Koufax Awards

Gimme a second. I’ll get around to the explaining that headline. (If you can’t stomach prefaces, scroll down to paragraph twelve.) Back in March, the hound-dogs over at Technorati noted that they were tracking 7.8...

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New Torture Chamber Raided in Baghdad

A second prison crammed with hundreds of maltreated Iraqis was uncovered last Thursday in Baghdad the Washington Post and The New York Times are reporting in Monday’s editions. Thirteen prisoners were in such bad shape...

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Will Bush Pull a Nixon in Iraq?

[From the diaries by susanhu. Essential information. We can’t assume today’s GOP will be any less clever than Nixon was with the games he played to win elections. We must be on alert.] For six months I’ve been...

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Thai Turkey and Thanksgiving Redux

Over the past week, my wife and I have had probably a dozen conversations with Los Angelenos of various ethnic and religious backgrounds talking about the turkey they’ll be eating day after tomorrow. Doesn’t matter...

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Timetables: A Tale of Two Generals

[Promoted from the diaries by Steven D] “I like guys who’ve never been there that criticize us who’ve been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war,...

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